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Re: Did anyone else look down during the eclipse? Amazing - cbelt3 - 08-21-2017
pinholes in the leaves act as pinhole projection cameras, projecting an image of the occluded sun onto the ground. It's magical...
Re: Did anyone else look down during the eclipse? Amazing - Bill in NC - 08-21-2017
same thing with the bushes in front of our steps
Re: Did anyone else look down during the eclipse? Amazing - GuyGene - 08-21-2017
miley-shocked003: miley-shocked003: Noooooo!! You were REALLY able to see what LIVES and BREATHES at your place! That stuff is ALIVE!miley-laughing001:I don't see nuttin'.
Re: Did anyone else look down during the eclipse? Amazing - lost in space - 08-21-2017
That's amazing. I was surprise how the air turned cooler. It was different from a normal drop in temperature from the the sun going behind a cloud, or setting. The air felt different from anything I've experienced. We had 92% coverage, and I was surprised how much there still was from the 8 % that was showing. The character of the light was different too.
Re: Did anyone else look down during the eclipse? Amazing - Grateful11 - 08-21-2017
Got another uploaded to Tinypic.
Re: Did anyone else look down during the eclipse? Amazing - ztirffritz - 08-22-2017
Did anyone see shadow snakes?
Re: Did anyone else look down during the eclipse? Amazing - NewtonMP2100 - 08-22-2017
ztirffritz wrote:
Did anyone see shadow snakes?
.....on a plane.....on a plane.....
Re: Did anyone else look down during the eclipse? Amazing - Spiff - 08-22-2017
Those are shadow lines or shadow snakes. No one knows exactly whey they happen, but they appear 10-30 seconds before totality and then reappear after totality ends for 10-30 seconds. They move and writhe in unison. I have a video on my phone of faint shadow lines.
Re: Did anyone else look down during the eclipse? Amazing - Lew Zealand - 08-22-2017
I suspect they are individual shadows cast from the sun peeking through the valleys on the limb of the moon shortly before and after totality. And I'm probably wrong.
Re: Did anyone else look down during the eclipse? Amazing - Lew Zealand - 08-22-2017
Or they could be those same beams of moon valley sunlight passing thorough individual thermal columns in the Earth's atmosphere, which distort them in a uniform fashion.